ALAPPUZHA: The district police on Monday booked a resort staff working at Punnamada in connection with an ATM card fraud here on Monday.
The arrested has been identified as Jinto Joy, 30, of Karippayi house, Valakulam, Chalakkudy.
He was working as a front office boy in a resort at Punnamada. The arrest was made on a complaint lodged by Reghukumar from Hyderabad.
The arrest was made by the police team led by DySP K Lalji. The police had spread net to nab Fahad of Kanjanhad, the mastermind behind the ATM fraud.
District Police Chief V Sureshkumar said that the modus operandi of Jinto was to collect details of the ATM cards and credit cards of tourists, and create clone cards. Later, Fahad used these clone cards to withdraw money from Dubai.
“Jinto managed the money matters of the resort. When the tourists were settling bills using debit or credit cards, he copied the details of the card using another skimmer machine developed by Fahad. The details of the cards would then be sent to Fahad, who made clone cards using the details, the DPC said. The police also found that Jinto had drawn `2 lakh from various accounts. A duplicate card was used for purchasing one items worth `1 lakh from Nepal and one lakh was withdrawn as cash from Alappuzha.
Of which, `60,000 was withdrawn from SBT ATM and `40,000 from SBI ATM. The police confiscated 19 ATM cards, 5 SIM cards, a mobile phone, a laptop and a skimmer devise, the police said.
They said that the friendship between Fahad and Jinto began in Mumbai. A 10 per cent cut from every hustle was given to Jinto by Fahad, the police said. Jinto is a charted accountant. He was produced before the judicial first class magistrate court and remanded to judicial custody for 14 days.
